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Westminster Business School, London 10th June 2009. Limited places available. Event organised by the Sociotechnical group of the British Computer Society. Let’s admit it, we all know that the IT job sector is shrinking faster than you can say: “Return on Investment.” We need to get out moreWe need to get out more. The credit crunch has affected attendance at industry events and this will have a longer term effect, because getting out of the office is an important part of our personal, professional and organizational development. My review of Mary Jo Foley’s new book: Microsoft 2.0 – How Microsoft plans to stay relevant in the post-Gates era is published today by Computer Weekly. IT outsourcing/ offshoring – what does it mean to you? My response to the question: “no longer relevant” VMWare users know how Grouse feel on August 12thA date bug in a recent VMWare release has caused serious problems for many users, halting systems when their clocks hit August 12th. Story at The Register… One ping to rule them all?I sometimes wonder if anyone has bothered to research Tolkien puns on the web. There may already be learned tomes aplenty on just that topic, or there may be precious few, my precious. I digress. The ping in question is, of course, ping.fm – “a simple service that allows you to post to multiple social [...] Broadband provider VirginMedia are sending snotty letters to “illegal” music downloaders and may clap these dastardly “pirates” in irons if they don’t buckle down and pay attention to Cap’n Branson and his crew. Is IT full steam ahead, or back to the future?I am getting mixed messages from connections in the IT industry; within the space of an hour yesterday I was told that things are “steaming ahead” by one person, while another observed “things are very, very tight, nobody is spending.” |
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